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andy

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I want to be a cyborg by the time I'm 50 I like turtles and have a fascination with tapirs

My Interests

i am doing grad school. for experimental analysis of behavior and/or behavioral pharmacology. I like reading, watching extreme ends of movies (ultra pretentious movies or really really stupid movies), listening to music, eating ice cream, and talking about robots.

I'd like to meet:

Rich Uncle Pennybags from the monopoly game, Lando Calrissian, the actual character, not Billy Dee Williams. Actually I'd meet him too

Music:

Harcore/Punk Bands: Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minutemen, Glassjaw, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Husker Du, Every Time I Die, Fugazi, Embrace (US), Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Jawbox, Big Black, Bear Vs. Shark, Blood Brothers, Butthole Surfers, Shellac, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From the Crypt
Metal Bands: Clutch, Mastodon, Pre-Black Album Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Faith No More, Fantomas, Tomahawk, Iron Maiden,
Rap/Hip Hop: Brother Ali, Atmosphere, Dalek, Mos Def, Talib Kwali, Kanye West, Psalm One, Wu-Tang Clan, Why?, Clouddead, Odd Nosdam, Jel, 13 & God, Busdriver, Cex, RjD2, Common, El-P, Buck65, Sage Francis, Aesop Rock
Pop/Rock Bands: Beach Boys (after 1966), Beatles, Super Furry Animals, Blur, They Might Be Giants, Bjork, The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, The Cure, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., The Who, Far, David Bowie, eels, Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips
Country/Country Rock/Alt. Country Bands: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Hank Williams (Sr., JR. and III), Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, Wilco (well just the album summer teeth), Gram Parsons, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Byrds (Sweetheart of the Rodeo), Marty Robbins, The Louvin Brothers, The Carter Family
Indie Rock (Sort of): Bright Eyes, Cursive, Rilo Kiley, Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal, Dinosaur Jr., Caribou, Pavement, Cat Power, Decemberists, Deerhoof, elf power
Misc. Bands: Ween, Frank Zappa, Can, Neu!, Faust, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Animal Collective, XIU XIU, Sigur-Ros, Explosions in the Sky

Movies:

David Cronenberg: The Fly, The Brood, Videodrome, History of Violence.
David Lynch: Eraserhead, Muholland Drive, Blue Velvet
George A. Romero (...of the Dead series)
Documentaries: Mr. Death, Gates of Heaven, Vernon Flordia, Salesman, Grey Gardens, Brother's Keeper, Hoop Dreams, Stevie, F for Fake (does this count?)
Comedy: Rushmore, Royal Tenebaums, Cabin Boy, Brazil, Every Which Way But Loose, Cannibal the Musical, Ernest Movies!!, Dirty Work, Kung Pow!, Snatch, This is Spinal Tap, A Night at the Opera, The Jerk
Horror: Just about anything with zombies, Phantasm, Friday the 13th (I-IV), The Fog (the original), Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of a 1000 corpses, The Vanishing (the original one, not the american remake)
Sci-Fi: Alien(s), Star Wars, 12 Monkeys, Equinox, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Abyss, Pi, The Fountain, Children of Men
Drama/Action: Wild Strawberries, Seven Samuri, Straw Dogs, Donnie Darko, One Flew over the Cookoos Nest, Indian Jones, Requiem for a Dream, Aguirre Der Zorn Gottes, Fanny & Alexander, 8 1/2, Rashomon, Pan's Labryinth, Godfather (I & II), Jaws, Leon (the Professional), Lawrence of Arabia, Juline Donkey Boy, M, Ratcatcher

Television:

mystery science theater 3000, futurama, simpsons, metalocolypse, venture brothers, the tick, arrested development, law and order: CI and SVU, mama's family, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS!! frisky dingo, sealab, subterrenian (sometimes), random informercials

Books:

A Brief History of time (Hawking)
Blind Watchmaker (Dawkins)
Beyond Freedom and Dignity/ About Behaviorism (Skinner)
Elegant Universe (Greene)
Guns, Germs and Steel (Diamond)
Trieste of Human Nature (Hume)
Chaos (Gleick)
Structures of Scientific Revolution (Kuhn)

Heroes:

Stephen Jay Gould Bender
a hero to people with huge heads everywhere
Stephen Hawking
an up and coming comedian

My Blog

this week

update!!So i went go Graham and Kelly's wedding, it was a pretty good time.  there was one problem though, the classic prince song "let's go crazy" was played at the reception and in the middle o...
Posted by andy on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:28:00 PST

on coolness

so the important question i have been asking, are capes cool?  my criterion for cool is one manhell, if you can name one person cooler than lando calrisian, i would sya you are lying, i mean, he ...
Posted by andy on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:17:00 PST

it’s RAND-tastic

So, as many of you probably know, I enjoy playing video games...  no shock.  speaking of shock though,  my roommate bought bioshock a few weeks ago and in my humble opinion it is one of...
Posted by andy on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:19:00 PST

something from bob

1.  What is the absolute highest price you'll pay for a packet of Ramen noodles? 1.50 if they are those really good ones you get in an asian grocery 2. When you hear the names Michelangelo, Dona...
Posted by andy on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:36:00 PST

seedy underbelly

so today i went to craigslist for the very first time, at first like most people (i assume) I was drawn to the free stuff.  oooo free electrical spool, a really nasty couch, a broken water founta...
Posted by andy on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:45:00 PST

have it your way

so i've noticed that burger king has had the best junky swag for things.  let me explainfirst off,  during christmas they had three "great" games for  5 bucks.  okay they are horri...
Posted by andy on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:59:00 PST

what i learned today

point a. daniel johnston covering songs from south pacific is incredible, happy talk is a great songb.  maybe i'm not pretentious as i thought (there is a hint as to why i say this in my blogc.&n...
Posted by andy on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:09:00 PST

nerd points

i was just thinking of this, i consider myselfa fan of useless and esoteric trivia.  and i just thought of someting for my youth,  if you can give me the correct answer, you will be my hero ...
Posted by andy on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:14:00 PST

smurfing along

just a thought, i think i'm a mix between clumsy and grouchy smurf, i'm watcing smurfs right now.  i'm happy
Posted by andy on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:37:00 PST

andy r: mega wuss

so, i went with queen helmethead to cosco today and she said that her, king helmet head, sticky, and others were going to the intercoastal to swim.  Natually i went and i when i got into the wate...
Posted by andy on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:14:00 PST